Globalization and Urban Development (Advances in Spatial Science)

✍ Scribed by Harry W. Richardson, Chang-Hee C. Bae

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities" (e.g. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo) that influence what happens in the rest of the world. In contrast, this research looks at the cities at the receiving end of the forces of globalization. The general finding is that large cities, on balance, benefit from globalization, although in some cases at the expense of widening spatial inequities.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
I. Globalization in General......Page 20
Globalization, spatial allocation of resources and spatial impacts: A conceptual framework......Page 21
Urban development in the global periphery: The consequences of economic and ideological globalization......Page 36
II. The Urban Hierarchy......Page 47
Impact of globalization on cities and city-related policies in India......Page 48
The impacts of globalization on the urban spatial-economic system in Korea......Page 64
Trade openness and regional development in a developing country......Page 84
Do the donors have it right? Decentralization and changing local governance in Indonesia......Page 100
South Africa in the global context: The view from above and below......Page 114
III. City-Specific Studies......Page 128
The Rio/São Paulo Extended Metropolitan Region: A quest for global integration......Page 129
Mexico City as a peripheral global player: The two sides of the coin......Page 151
Globalization and Latin America: Understanding the global links of Colombia’s capital......Page 169
Tijuana-San Diego: Globalization and the transborder metropolis......Page 184
Globalization and Los Angeles......Page 199
The impacts of globalization on St. Petersburg: A secondary world city in from the cold?......Page 212
Building world city Tokyo: Globalization and conflict over urban space......Page 226
Measuring world city formation – The case of Shanghai......Page 239
Karachi – a case of asymmetric inclusion in the current globalization?......Page 251
IV. Issues......Page 271
Information technology and urban spatial structure: A comparative analysis of the Chicago and Seoul regions......Page 272
Globalization and urban environmental transitions: Comparison of New York’s and Tokyo’s experiences......Page 288
Above and below the line: Globalization and urban form in Bangkok......Page 310